"You two get to work. I'm going to sleep."
After working all night, Chen Ning yawned and lay down on the ground.
Looking ahead, he saw that a new Arrow Tower had actually been built.
A battle seemed to have taken place during the night. Several wooden walls had been blasted down, but fortunately, there were now many Skeleton Wolves, as well as an elite LV10 human Skeleton Warrior. They had made it through without too much danger.
"I'll keep chopping trees."
Ye Qian brought several Skeletons more than forty meters away and began swinging her axe at a tree.
Same as before, she could basically get one Copper Coin every few swings.
Though there were plenty of them, buying sufficiently good items from the trading market would require saving up for a long time.
After working continuously for an hour, she had completely processed two trees into planks.
And just as she swung down her final axe, a new item dropped.
Item: Ancient Summoning Card (Gold, Rare)
Type: Consumable
Description: Randomly summons a warrior from a distant era of this world to become your subordinate. Initial level LV1–10 (random). The summoner's charisma affects the hero's initial loyalty.
"Uh..."
Ye Qian picked up the black card from the ground in surprise.
"What good thing did you get this time?"
Lan Xinyu had already gotten used to Ye Qian's absurd luck and ran over excitedly.
Seeing the item card glowing with golden light in Ye Qian's hand, she rubbed her eyes.
"Gold?"
"Yeah, a rare item. It can summon an ancient hero." Ye Qian stared excitedly at the card. "So, should I use it now?"
"Use it, use it. You got it anyway, and your charisma has to be insanely high. Even I think you're super cute, and I'm a girl." Lan Xinyu nodded with a strange grin.
Ye Qian gave her an odd look, then placed the card in her palm as instructed.
With a thought, she used it!
A beam of light shot into the sky.
A few seconds later, the golden light descended in front of them and slowly formed a... egg.
"An egg?"
The moment she saw it, Ye Qian fell silent.
"What's going on here?" Lan Xinyu wore a strange expression beside her.
The egg was completely black with a metallic sheen, and its appearance carried an indescribably eerie feeling.
Its surface was covered in unreadable writing. Looking directly at it made their eyes sting faintly.
Fortunately, the pain was bearable.
She glanced at the system interface.
Item: Strange Egg (Gold)
Quality: Unknown
Description: A special egg that seemed capable of hatching some strange creature.
"So this is what I summoned?"
This felt a little ridiculous.
She cautiously reached out and touched the surface of the black eggshell.
It was quite large, roughly sixty centimeters tall.
Her palm felt a trace of chill the moment it touched the shell.
Suddenly—
The egg jolted violently.
Gurgle~
Ye Qian instinctively stepped back half a pace.
The eggshell immediately began creaking. With several cracking sounds, long, thin fissures spread across its surface.
A few seconds later...
With a pop, an adorable little head with long black hair broke through the shell and suddenly emerged from inside.
She blinked twice and looked at Ye Qian in confusion.
"Uh...?"
Ye Qian's expression turned strange upon seeing her.
Ancient Lifeform: Amia (Gold, Dragon)
LV: 1
Experience: 0/10
Loyalty: 60 (+28)
Attributes: Strength 5.6, Constitution 5.2, Agility 6, Spirit 4.5, Intelligence 3.8, Resistance 2.5
Skills: Inherited Dragon Language (Gold), Dragon Breath (Gold), Telepathy (Green)
Cancel Transformation: Return to her original form (infant stage).
Description: The last dragon egg, buried at the end of the desolate Abyss. After being summoned into the present world, it called back its departed soul and transformed into an ancient dragon. She was the last dragon, but she had not yet grown up, so she could temporarily be referred to as she.
"A dragon? Damn... Those stats are insanely high."
Ye Qian was dumbfounded.
Seeing the adorable little creature lying in the eggshell and blinking curiously at her, Ye Qian's feelings became strangely complicated.
She had expected something like a heroic Knight to hatch, but instead, it was a little girl like this.
And this baby dragon girl seemed kind of cute.
She looked adorably clueless and incredibly beautiful.
After staring at her for a few seconds, the other party suddenly flapped a pair of black wings, wobbled out of the eggshell, and flew straight at Ye Qian. Then she began rubbing her face wildly against Ye Qian's chest.
"Mommy!" the little Dragon Loli said in a soft, childish voice.
Ye Qian staggered. "The hell do you mean, Mommy?"
Calling her Mom the moment she opened her mouth?
But wasn't this way too cute?
Ye Qian stroked the little thing's head, and her tough heart nearly melted.
The Dragon Loli stuck out her tongue and licked Ye Qian's hand, leaving it sticky.
Black lines immediately appeared across Ye Qian's forehead.
Lan Xinyu was stunned beside her and could not help swallowing. "S-so cute. But why does her voice sound kind of... buzzing?"
Ye Qian froze slightly.
Indeed, it was not just the little dragon's voice. It carried an indescribable discomfort. Even merely looking at her body created an urge to worship her.
"Is this what they call a higher lifeform?"
Ye Qian took a deep breath. She realized what that intense discomfort contained... Pollution.
Yes, not only did it carry a pressure that made people want to worship her, it also came with Pollution.
Of course, this Pollution differed from the writing on the fragments she had seen in the Dream World, but fundamentally, it was still harmful.
Without exaggeration, if Ye Qian stayed with this little thing for too long, something would go wrong with both her mind and body.
"Ah—"
As she was thinking, the Dragon Loli suddenly flapped her wings, and Ye Qian toppled straight to the ground.
"Oh my god, that strength."
In an indescribable state of mind, Ye Qian was pinned to the ground and had her face licked wildly.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Unable to endure it any longer, Ye Qian picked her up and set her aside.
It was obvious at a glance that this little one was not weak. At the very least, her base attributes were terrifying.
She started at LV1 and came with innate skills.
She also had Cancel Transformation, which seemed to let her return to her dragon form?
Her base loyalty was 60. Ye Qian did not know whether that counted as high, but because of Ye Qian's personal charisma, it had increased by another 28, reaching 88 in the end.
Seeing this, Ye Qian was basically satisfied.
Lan Xinyu drooled as she reached out and chuckled, rubbing the Dragon Loli's head.
"Roar~"
A small flame burst from her mouth, and the Dragon Loli let out a childish roar at her.
"Ah—"
Lan Xinyu stumbled back several steps, clutching her dizzy head. She immediately curled into a ball on the ground. "My head hurts so much, sob... It's full of messy noises."
Ye Qian also felt a violent wave of dizziness from that roar. She realized getting along with this dragon would not be as easy as she had imagined.
"Idiot, don't roar randomly." Ye Qian rapped the Dragon Loli on the head without holding back.
"Wuu~~" The little dragon immediately held her head, her eyes brimming with tears.
Seeing Ye Qian run over to help Lan Xinyu up, she blinked as if she understood something.
A few minutes later...
"How are you? Feeling a little better?"
"Mm-hm." Lan Xinyu nodded. "That was terrifying. Was that Dragon Might?"
"Probably." Ye Qian's mouth twitched.
The description used "It" for this dragon. What did that mean? Did it even need to be said? But she had not yet grown up, which meant she was essentially still a mortal creature.
"This little thing is already this terrifying right after being born."
Still, Ye Qian was very excited. This little Dragon Loli was Gold quality, and she was truly adorable. She just needed to make sure she did not randomly roar at her own people from now on.
Ye Qian could clearly sense that the sounds coming from the little dragon's mouth did not belong to any language, yet they entered people's minds directly and made them understand her meaning.
Without a doubt, this language was Dragon Language.
And the reason they could understand those sounds seemed to be the ability Telepathy.
"But does summoning this thing count as summoning an ancient hero? Or was my luck just absurdly insane?"
She recalled that the talent she had obtained at the very beginning had been Gold. According to what Chen Ning and the others had said, Gold was rare but not absolutely scarce. With a sufficiently large population, people with Gold talents were not actually that uncommon.
Then perhaps Gold heroes were not unique either?
To verify it, Ye Qian subconsciously opened the chat group and tried asking, "Everyone, is it difficult to obtain Ancient Summoning Cards? Also, is the chance of summoning high-level heroes from them high? Can they recruit beings other than humans?"
[Qfim: Ancient Summoning Cards? The odds are about the same as grinding monsters for two months and maybe getting one to drop. Although every card is Gold, the heroes recruited are basically White quality. I heard the chance for Green is only 10%, Blue is 1%, and so on.]
[Qfim: Of course, there are still differences within the same quality. For example, if an extremely rare Blue hero appears, its value might rival Gold. As for other races... the odds aren't low. After all, there are countless races. But be careful around species that are not very compatible with humans. They're quite troublesome.]
[Baladora: There's no point saying all that. If you have one, you're lucky. Little sister with the cute profile picture, why are you asking? Did one drop for you?]
[Ruofei: Lucky bastard, eat my spear!!!]
[Likes His Wife Wearing a Green Hat: I can't keep going, I can't keep going! I almost got my whole group wiped out in that last battle.]
[Black Hole Emperor: Isn't this the young lady selling Purification Meat? Do you have any meat left?]
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